όταν ένα τυχαίο Σάββατο ακους τυχαία αυτό, για πρώτη φορά, τότε όλα θα πάνε καλά... https://youtube/watch?v=Rh_TC8j_JkE Automatic Writing is a piece that took five years to complete and was released by Lovely Music Ltd. in 1979. Ashley used his own involuntary speech that results from his mild form of Tourettes Syndrome as one of the voices in the music. This was obviously considered a very different way of composing and producing music. Ashley stated that he wondered since Tourettes Syndrome had to do with sound-making and because the manifestation of the syndrome seemed so much like a primitive form of composing whether the syndrome was connected in some way to his obvious tendencies as a composer. Ashley was intrigued by his involuntary speech, and the idea of composing music that was unconscious. Seeing that the speech that resulted from having Tourettes could not be controlled, it was a different aspect from producing music that is deliberate and conscious, and music that is performed is considered doubly deliberate according to Ashley. Although there seemed to be a connection between the involuntary speech, and music, the connection was different due to it being unconscious versus conscious. Ashleys first attempts at recording his involuntary speech were not successful, because he found that he ended up performing the speech instead of it being natural and unconscious. The performances were largely imitations of involuntary speech with only a few moments here and there of loss control.However, he was later able to set up a recording studio at Mills College one summer when the campus was mostly deserted, and record 48 minutes of involuntary speech. This was the first of four characters that Ashley had envisioned of telling a story in what he viewed as an opera. The other three characters were a French voice translation of the speech, Moog synthesizer articulations, and background organ harmonies. The piece was Ashleys first extended attempt to find a new form of musical storytelling using the English language. It was opera in the Robert Ashley way.
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